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Boston PRoud
Last Wednesday, my co-workers and I attended Boston PRoud, a fundraising event hosted by the Greater Boston PR community. In light of the recent Boston Marathon bombings, the PR community decided to...
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Join Our Team!
It has been a busy stretch since we’ve taken up residence a month ago in our new place on Summer Street in Boston. Boxes are mostly emptied out. Furniture is mostly in place. Local restaurants and...
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From Websites to Parasites…to Collective Perfection?
From most reports, we are a nation of cord cutters. We are technology addicts that speak responsibly of privacy and propriety in the way digital businesses deal with us, but simultaneously consume...
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Devil’s Advocate with PII: Do You Have Any Privacy?
All of this news about the National Security Agency (NSA)’s PRISM system has got me thinking. What rights do we have to our Personally Identifiable Information (PII)? Has the internet completely...
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Oh, the Things You’ll See!
It’s been quite the rainy stretch in Boston, but post-storm Monday evening, a double rainbow appeared that had we amateur photographers (speaking for myself here) scrambling in attempt to capture its...
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Girl Power: “Girl Rising”
Last week, I watched Girl Rising, a documentary on CNN about young girls who have harnessed the power of education to change the world. What an incredibly moving documentary—one that every young lady...
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CHEN goes to Boston: A Photo Story
If you’ve read our blog in the past or follow us on Twitter or Facebook, you know that CHEN PR recently moved from Waltham to Boston and today marks two months at our new home in Downtown Crossing....
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It’s OK! We still have the Red Sox
“Sweet Caroline, ba ba baaaa. Good times never seem so good…” Just listen to the Red Sox’s song, I mean it’s played at every home game in the middle of the eighth inning. But seriously, times will get...
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Food, Drinks, and a Whole Lot of Business
Some look at it as a chore, others call it “work,” and some say it’s fun! What is this thing that people have many different perceptions on? Networking. Being in the public relations industry,...
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Step away from the smartphone
It’s no secret that in summertime the number of employees taking advantage of their saved up vacation days sees a major boost. A topic I think a lot of professionals struggle with – especially those...
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Learning the Lingo
Hello Everybody! My name is Chris Conway, and I am the newest member of the CHEN PR team. Now that all of the hazing rituals are over, it seems it’s time for me to write my first blog post. I’ve been...
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Spelling and grammar– where does it fall in the priority list?
We’ve all done it before. We misspell or use the wrong version of the word and publish it online, whether it’s in a tweet, in a Facebook post, or do I even dare say LinkedIn! We’re all guilty of it....
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Pitch Perfect: Creating it and Getting Reporters to Respond
To the average Joe, the thought of creating a “pitch” to a reporter seems like a cakewalk but for those who have actually tackled writing a pitch; it can be a smidge daunting at times. It’s fairly easy...
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Hello September! Good-bye Summer.
Summertime is a blessing and a curse. Why you may ponder? Across all professions and stages of life, we all experience summertime “flu-like symptoms.” What does that mean? Well, as summer is...
View ArticleIt’s Not Worth It: Texting & Driving
“There is a time and a place.” A cliché of the highest order, and like most clichés—no matter how banal—it resonates with a certain amount of truth. The truthfulness of this particular cliché has never...
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Social Media’s Impact on PR
Special Report: Q & A with Kevin Kosh Social media is a critical component of PR programs today, and – like all other components — requires careful and comprehensive strategy and planning, from...
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Hubspot Co-Founder and CTO brings lessons in start up culture code to MIT
It’s no secret that a start up’s greatest asset is its employees. With such high value placed on employees in the innovation ecosystem, it is especially important that companies build a compelling...
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Boston Business Journal’s Social Capital Event
Some of the key phrases and takeaways from last Thursday’s Boston Business Journal (BBJ) event on Social Capital were, “It’s your number one news outlet” and “It raises your brand awareness in the...
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The Best Things in Life Have Strings Attached. TUGG Here
A few years ago, leaders from Boston’s technology community created TUGG (Technology Underwriting Greater Good), which is dedicated to catalyzing and spreading social entrepreneurship in New England....
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The unstructured structure of MassTLC unConference
Being in the High Tech PR world there is never a shortage of events and industry conferences to attend, especially in the Hub with its growing innovation community. Having said that, there is nothing...
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